My new chapter “Save our children from Satanists”: Women, Motherhood, and Satanic Moral Panic” is now out in ‘Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture’ edited by Dr Miranda Corcoran. SO excited to have been included in this amazing collection & can’t wait to read the other papers!!

My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

And first day on site setting up the new exhibition (and curating a cabinet of curiosities) for the museum of the history of science, technology & medicine at the uni

I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake

I submitted my PhD!!!

Great couple days at the OU Religion & Disinformation workshop. Thanks again to @paulftremlett.bsky.social & @preciouschatd.bsky.social !!

And also getting lost on ilkley moor (again) and finding a stone circle in the process

Last year highlight - searching for the demon wisht hounds of wistman’s wood, Dartmoor

Now fighting against time and this growing crack in my laptop screen with 2 months to go for the thesis deadline. Who has hexed me

Presented a paper, found a haunted hotel & met some real life mermaids. Thank you #sblaar24 !

The pub psychic night project is at AAR!! Caroline Starkey ( @carostarkey.bsky.social ) & Josh Bullock. (So happy to have been able to be a research assistant on this exciting project!) #SBLAAR2024

Longest flight ever but made it to San Diego for AAR this weekend!! (Went to sleep at 6pm and about to nap again because what even is time right now)

Had the opportunity to see one of the earliest editions of the Malleus Maleficarum (‘hammer of witches’). This copy is from 1494 (original 1486) & the annotations probably 16th century. Held in University of Leeds special collections archives at the moment!

Recently published a chapter in this collection called ‘cults of conspiracy & the (on-going) satanic panic’ - edited by @aledjllthomas.bsky.social & Edd Graham-Hyde!